libretto

Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi’s libretto, based on a 1673 tragedy by Jean Racine, is political and personal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Felice Romani’s libretto also has an unusual—rather meta—construction: It includes a poet who is trying to write an opera buffa and narrates the events, a nod to Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

Pushkin’s text eventually became the libretto that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov employed in his opera of the same name.

From Salon ● May 16, 2026

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Zigman was impressed by “Silent Night,” the 2011 opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, and added Campbell, a veteran of roughly 40 libretti.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

For about two years after she graduated from Hunter College, Marianne Mantell worked as a freelancer for record companies, writing liner notes and translating opera libretti.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

Those libretti are striking assemblages from documentary and literary sources by Sellars that Adams’ music brings to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

He has collaborated on two libretti, an operatic sideline resulting from a misapprehension.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013

The libretti were composed in octave stanzas, with passages of terza rima, and were sung to a recitative air.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Italian soprano Carmela Remigio told the Corriere della Sera newspaper that it was thanks to the opera and its librettos that Italian language was still known in the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

Both women wrote the librettos for the stage adaptations of their respective films too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

So when scholars got serious about “Don Carlos” a century later, they could reconstruct that cut music from handwritten orchestra parts, draft librettos, rehearsal reports and the like.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

Although he adapted familiar books by Emily Bronte, John Steinbeck and Robert Penn Warren for these pieces, working closely with the last two authors, Mr. Floyd always wrote his own librettos.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2021

Study his librettos, learn to feel each leitmotiv.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various